… Columbus is a man that can be called many things. He has been called a hero, a legend or even the man who discovered America. But what I would call him would be fearless, a liar, and confused. Christopher Columbus is a fearless man. He wanted…

… people pursuing today? The most important thing to most Americans today is the type and quality of relationships that they have with other people. Everyone is trying to have the abundance of friends that has been adopted to be the major driving…

… in many cultural and religious doctrines, is still a theory that many grapple with. But if one presupposes a post life residence somewhere within the ether of the spirit world, perhaps one can entertain the idea of communicating with that realm.…

… the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard…

… the greatest poets of all time, writing 1,775 brief poems in her lifetime! She is famous for her vast sense of style and theme. Author David Porter said, “by mapping the themes in a poet’s oeuvre we seek in a standard way to classify and thereby…

… Solomon’s father was a slave until his master granted him his freedom in his will. On Christmas day 1829, Solomon married Anne Hampton. He and his wife made a life for themselves at the Eagle Tavern by cooking, fiddling and farming. During the…

… of Rotary International wrote the Four Way Test in 1954-55. This concept is a purely subjective form of self-analysis. Truth is, of course, relative. Rotarian Herb J. Taylor retold the concept of the test in his own words: "To win our way out…

… and fireworks- as a child, no other combination of two things was as exciting to me as this. When my parents talked about chicken and fireworks, that meant that the Fourth of July was coming up, and that was when my mothers’ side of the family had…

… was one of foremost abolitionists in the United States. Garrison used a nonviolent, journalistic approach to speak out against the evils of slavery. Garrison is most famous for his anti-slavery journal The Liberator. He made his views very clear in…

… on October 31st, 1795. The first son of a stable-keeper, he had a sister and three brothers, one of whom died in infancy. When John was eight years old, his father was killed in an accident. In the same year his mother married again, but little later…